And they, too, will discover that local regulations make a single global profit pool impossible.

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We believe Apple is well positioned to capture an enormous profit pool as mobility and content worlds converge.

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The economics of traditional publishing makes it very hard for either publisher or author to profit from a pool of only 10, 000 to 30, 000 readers, no matter how devoted.

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She was basically saying that company is still turning a profit and it's a pool of billions of dollars worth of assets and it's not about to go bust.

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If you make the jump from soccer mom to official paid chauffeur, meaning you operate a car pool in order to make a profit, the rules are different.

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Three years ago, he introduced a profit-sharing scheme under which each firm contributes a third of profits to a common bonus-pool, and fund management is run globally from New York.

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